(1333)THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBALIZATION CHANGES IN EDUCATION:POLICY AND PRACTICE IN THE GULF STATES

摘要

The academic literature on globalization and education has burgeoned over the last twodecades. However, most of the recent, groundbreaking educational literature oneducation and globalization focuses on western industrialized countries and the newlyindustrialized countries at the Pacific Rim. This state of affair might raise questions aboutthe relevance of this work for understanding globalization and education policy in theundeveloped countries which are struggling with the external forces of globalization tomaintain their sovereignty and merging nationhood.This paper examines a number of issues related to the effects of globalization in the GulfStates and the challenges that they face in preparing today's students to be successfulcitizens in a fast-changing world.Drawing on the recent literature on this issue, an attempt is made to set a conceptualframework for understanding various aspects of the education / globalization relationshipin Gulf states with special reference to the state of Kuwait .